A new working paper from the Berkeley Institute for Young Americans analyzed California’s historical school district financial data to gain insights into why many of the state’s unified school districts became at-risk of financial insolvency during the Great Recession and its immediate aftermath.
California school districts are in a moment of uncertainty. While the state budget has been on solid footing for the last several years, the latest financial outlook from the Legislative Analyst’s
Executive Summary Proposition 13 plays an outsized role in the history of public finance in California and is a central feature of property ownership in the state. Despite its importance,
The Zillow Transaction and Assessment Dataset (ZTRAX) is a comprehensive, national real estate database made available free of charge to U.S. academic, nonprofit and government researchers. ZTRAX is largely made
California has made progress to increase overall state revenue for schools since 2002, and as of 2019 ranks in the top ten of all states for per pupil state revenues.
The sustainability of the state’s public education system is questioned in a new report from the Berkeley Institute for Young Americans. Part of the California 100 initiative, administered by the Goldman School of Public Policy, the report finds that long-term structural challenges in the state’s finance system, combined with flaws in education governance, threaten the long-term outlook of public education…
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